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Violin making and repairing, 1927
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1place lies directly under the left foot of the bridge, the soundpost being in a line with the right one, although slightly behind it. It will occasionally be found that the linings, or bass-bar have sprung away from their places, and where this is so, the joint must immediately be made good again, because loose parts, wherever they may be, are productive of buzzing noises extremely irritating to the player.
3Sometimes a new bass-bar is required, the old one being too small or too heavy as the case may be. The method of making and fitting a new one is as follows: A piece of straight-grained sound pine,
5Line of Belly
7Fig. 58.—Shape of Bass-bar.
9thoroughly dry and well seasoned, 10 1/2 in. long by about 2/5 in. thick and 1 in. deep, is placed edgewise down in the position it will occupy, as follows: At the bottom end it should be 3/4 in. away from the centre joint, measuring from the joint to the outer edge of the bar; at the top end it should be 1/10 in. nearer to the centre joint. Above all things, however, its central portion should pass directly under the left foot of the bridge. Its approximate depth in the centre is 3/8 in., but this varies with different instruments. Its shape is as shown in Fig. 58. To obtain the best results the bass-bar should be tentatively trimmed down to a little above the normal size after gluing into its place, the belly clamped on with fiddle clamps, the soundpost temporarily inserted, and the fiddle
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